12-11-2025, 12:36 PM
(12-11-2025, 11:44 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: Also, I hope the interim GM's don't get bullied into talking about extensions. If I am them, that is off the table now. If we keep AD it is because we want him on the roster. An extension is not needed. I know agents put pressure on teams but he has two full years left on his contract and will be 35 when it expires. I am under now pressure to have extension conversations now. Maybe that can happen next year, although set the expectations it will not be for 50 million a year. No reason to be bullied into extension talks.
The Shams article on this topic was parroting agent BS and minimizing the info the Mavs are really sharing.
"The Mavs are facing the pressure of being forced into a tough decision right now where it's either trade AD or give him a massive max extension, of about $275M" says Shams.
Yet eventually he reveals that the Mavs say they feel no such pressure. The idea of an extension? Not a concern, we have other things to figure out. Trade? Maybe, maybe not, we are evaluating things.
They aren't in a rush at all, there is no panic to make a move, even though Shams wants them to be. Good for them.
FWIW this looks like the same reporting game we have seen MANY times with Giannis already. "He has to be traded, MIL has to act, here are the choices, ...." --- and then nothing happens because it was all overstated ntonsense. And a few months later, on a slow day, Giannis click bait starts again.